Wire fence



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EMILE OHAVANNES, OF ALTOONA, IOWA.

WIRE FENCE.1

SPECIFICA'I'ION f0rming pa.rt of Letters Patent N0. 263,482, da.ted August 29, 1882,

Applieation filed February 23. 1882. (N0 model.)

T0 all whom z't mag; concem:

Be lt. known that I, EMILE CHAVANNES, of Altoona, in the county of Polk and State '0f Iowa, have invented an Improved Wire Fence, of which the following is a specification.

'lhe objeel: of my invention is to restrain animals more effectually by means of wire fences without increasing the number and sizes of the wires in a. fence-panel, and also to dispense with barbs on wires 130 avoid the dangers, accidents, and damages to persons and animals ineident to the use of barbed-wire fences.

115 consists in arranging three.or more 0011- tinuous fenoe-wires with fixed posts, having cross-bars attached, and triangular-shaped stay-pieces er frames, es hereinafter fully sei: forth, in such a manner that the wires will be in angling position rlatively t0 each other and the posts, so as to come in contact with and strike an animal at sevral places at the san1e instant, to cause surprise and alarm and intimidation when an effort is made by the animal to geb through the fence or make a breach in a panel.

Figure 1 of my aceompanying drawings is a perspective view of my fence, in which are several panels of modified form. Fig. 2 1's a transverse section of a panel. Together these figures clearly illustrate the construction, operation, and utility 0f rny complet'e invent1on.

a a a represent posts sei; in the ground.

b b b are cross-pieces a.b0nt two (2) feet long, fixed to the posts a in inelinecl positions. These posts and orosepieees may be made 0f wood or ir0n, of any size desired, and the cross-pieces may be fixed t0 the post by means of nails, bolts, or in any suitable way.

Nos. 1 und 2 are fence-wires fixed t0 the ends of the inelined cross-pieces b, by means of staples er in any suitable way, so that they will extend along an entire panel and fence in parallel positions ab difi'erent points of elevation and at opposite sides of the posts, as clearly shown in my drawings. N0. 3 is aeorresponding wire fixed t0 the lower portions of the posts to extend parallel with ehe wires Nos. 1 .and 2.

c c 0 represent triangulanshaped stays, fixed 130 the wires Nos. 1 2 3 ab central positions between the posts a by passing the fencewires through perforations in their oorners, or in any suitable way. These stays may be made of wood or metal, solid er skeleton form, and va'ry in number between the posts. An extension er foot may be attaohed ab their lower ends t0 rest upon the ground to aid in supporting the Wires in a horizontal position without sagging, and to relieve them from supporting the weight of the.stays, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1.

N0. 4 is a fourth wirein a panel, fixed. t0 the posts a and conneoted with a triangularshaped stay, 0, in place of the No.1 and. upper that is fixed t0 the oross-pieces b.

It is obvious fron1 this arrangement of four wires relatively t0 euch other ancl the post and a. triangular-sha-ped stay (or device adapted t0 retain the wires a1: the points of a tria-ngle) tha.t various nnmbers of wires exceedin g three may be used, and the stays c plaoed in various positions to conneet wires that are fixed in triangular and parallel positions relatively to eaoh other and the line of posts in a fence.

Barbed wires may be used, a.s shown in Fig. l, when preferred 110 plain wire.

From Ehe foregoing detailed. description 0f the eonstruetion of my fence andthe specified. function of the elements combined therein the unitary aebions er results of seid combined. elements are appa.renb and ehe novely and utility 0f my oomplete fence thereby clearly sei; forth, so thao a furtl1er statement coueerning thepraetieal operation of 1ny invention is deemed unnecessary.

I olaim as my inventionl. In a wire-fence, the combination of three wires with two or 1nore fixed posts, having inclined oross-pieces to supporla two of the wires ab different points of elevation a1; opposite sides of and distant from the posts, substantially'as set forlzh, for the purposes speeifiecl.

2. The eombina.tion of three or more fencewires wiuh two or more fixed. posts, having inclined cr oss-pieces und one er more trian gular-shaped stay-pieces, substantially as sbown and deseribed, to operate in the manner sek forbh, for the purposes specified.

3. An improved fence consisting of fixed posts a, inclined cross-pieees b, three or more fence-wires, and stay-pieees c, when arranged and combined relatively 130 eaoh other and the surface of the ground snbstantially as shown and described, for Ehe purposes specified.

W'itnesses: EMILE CHAVANNES.

HEMAN HEMSTREET, HERMAN MARTIN. 

